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Evolutionary Biology
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
7mins
Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.
7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
4mins
Science has opened so many doors to humanity’s understanding of the world. Scientism shuts them. Here’s how to tell the difference.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
4mins
People say we are better off than ever. Are they right?
5mins
80% of the world was once polygamous. What happened?
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
In the beginning, genes weren't needed.
John Templeton Foundation
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
6mins
What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you're a man). But there is a downside.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
7mins
Find food, have sex, not die. That’s pretty much all we need to do — but why do we make it so complicated?
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
5mins
We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.